Meriadoc Brandybuck, usually referred to as Merry, and in later life known as Meriadoc the Magnificent, is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, featured throughout his most famous work, The Lord of the Rings.
Merry, a Hobbit, was born in year 2982 of the Third Age, and was the only child (and therefore the heir-apparent) of Saradoc Brandybuck (2940–F.A. 11), Master of Buckland, and Esmeralda Took (2936–?), the younger siste...
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Meriadoc Brandybuck, usually referred to as Merry, and in later life known as Meriadoc the Magnificent, is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, featured throughout his most famous work, The Lord of the Rings.
Merry, a Hobbit, was born in year 2982 of the Third Age, and was the only child (and therefore the heir-apparent) of Saradoc Brandybuck (2940–F.A. 11), Master of Buckland, and Esmeralda Took (2936–?), the younger sister of Paladin Took, making him first cousins to Paladin's son Pippin, who was clearly his closest friend.
A lover of boats and maps of Middle-earth, Merry was described as one of Frodo's closest friends and also related to him several times over.
In The Lord of the Rings, Merry was often considered, and was described by Tolkien as, the most perceptive and intelligent of the hobbits: for example, even before Bilbo Baggins left The Shire, he knew of the One Ring and its power of invisibility. He guarded Bag End after Bilbo's party, protecting...
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